After finding Brandy responsible for a fatal four-car crash in Los Angeles last month, police are urging the district attorney’s office to charge the singer with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter.
On Dec. 30, Brandy Norwood was driving her Land Rover on the 405 Freeway near Ventura Blvd. when she rear ended the car in front of her, which had slowed down along with freeway traffic. The driver of the car Brandy hit, 38-year-old wife and mother Awatef Aboudihaj, was killed when her vehicle slammed into a third car, careened into the freeway’s center divider and was hit broad-side by a fourth automobile.
According to CHP spokesman Leland Tang, the Highway Patrol referred the case to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for further review with the recommendation that the 27-year-old former star of “Moesha” be cited with the misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge.
A misdemeanor offense, which carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine, is less serious than a felony charge and means that prosecutors determine that the death did not result from gross negligence, a spokesman for the city attorney said.
*Meanwhile, it’s civil rights activist Najee Ali’s Project Islamic Hope to the rescue! He says the singer/actress is being targeted unfairly by the CHP because of her celebrity status.
Ali and other LA activists are calling upon LA City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to reject the CHP opinion and recommendation that Brandy be criminally charged with vehicular manslaughter.
“Brandy has publicly expressed condolences to the victim’s family, Brandy wasn’t under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash,” states Ali. “This was a tragic accident. Our coalition feels that the CHP is using Brandy as a political trophy and their recommendation is unfairly targeting her for prosecution because of her celebrity.”
